Major update on the way for 'Rollercoaster: How a man can overcome his partner’s breast cancer'

If you’ve read 2015’s first edition, major changes should be instantly obvious in the second go-‘round of what’s been retitled as Rollercoaster: How a man can overcome his partner’s breast cancer or any other lethal disease.

Ruth Schwartz

The follow-up manuscript is currently in the hands of The Wonderlady, Ruth Schwartz, a book midwife who's sure it will be professionally readied for publication and sale throughout the world by spring.  

Schwartz’s hiring has been “a fail-safe action, a triple-check,” said I, Woody Weingarten, the book’s author and a lifelong journalist.

That’s because I’ve, indeed, updated “all of it,” after more than a year of intense research, rewriting, and fact checking, trailed by a helpful proof-reading by my son and caregiver, Mark.

Rollercoaster now includes several entirely new chapters pertaining to the cancer diagnoses and treatments of my wife, Nancy Fox, and how we coped with them. Like the rest of the book, they're a tribute to her and her courage.

One revised chapter details a truckload of new meds, and another explores multiple breakthrough treatments. A later section shows both agencies and books where help is available.

Anecdotes and humor are sprinkled throughout, to leaven the volume's heavy theme.

My other books are MysteryDates: How to keep the sizzle in your relationship; The Roving I, a compilation of 70 of my newspaper columns; and Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates, a whimsical fantasy intended for 6- to 10-year-olds, co-authored with my then 8-year-old granddaughter. Check out my website at https://woodyweingarten.com for details, including buy-buttons for Amazon, Barnes & Noble and a bevy of other vendors.

Blog praises Woody Weingarten's caregiving book

Veteran author, blogger thinks 'Rollercoaster' helps male caregivers cope with cancer

The main subject of a new Goodreads blog is that  "Rollercoaster" can assist male caregivers in dealing with breast cancer.

Veteran blogger-journalist-novelist-publicist Debbie Cohen writes about what "sometimes slips through the cracks" after diagnosis — a "male partner's concurrent need for assurance in his new role as…primary caregiver."

Debbie Cohen

She says that being "expected to be a pillar of strength…can be a frightening experience for many men. To help that fear, veteran journalist Woody Weingarten has written an important book titled "Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner's breast cancer."

It's "exactly the type of book that Weingarten could have used himself," she notes. "He lost his first wife to breast cancer."

Although the book's focus is on breast cancer, her blog continues, "any caregivers, particularly those who are there for patients with AIDs, Alzheimers or, indeed, any life-threatening or altering disease, would benefit from it."

"Rollercoaster" is a memoir-chronicle, a love story, and an up-to-the-minute guide to research, meds, and where to get help.

Debbie's blog is appropriately titled "Why We Need More Books and Advocacy On Behalf of Male Caregivers."

Her first book, "Keeper of the Scale," which deals with body image and the power of female friendships in forming a "diet buddy" threesome.  It is available in both paperback and in ebook format.

Coping with cancer? Buy this ebook or paperback

You can order 'Rollercoaster,' book on male caregiving for breast cancer patients, now

Got milk?

No? Doesn't matter.

Got Kindle?

Yes? Makes a big difference.

Why? 'Cause you now can order — for $9.99 on Amazon — "Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner's breast cancer," by Woody Weingarten, a comprehensive memoir-chronicle and up-to-the-minute scientific research, meds and where to get help.

It shows how I, the author, and my wife, Nancy Fox, coped with breast cancer, its treatments and its aftermath — and how you can as well.

I'm a prize-winning journalist pro — for 50 years, actually — who has led a male partners' group for two decades. Though I became an expert reluctantly, I now unflinchingly share what I've learned.

Oh yeah, the book's available in paperback, too. From Amazon or through your favorite bookstore.